Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

Ajahn Chah

from the book A Still Forest Pool: The Insight Meditation of Achaan Chah

source: http://www.dhammatalks.net/Books2/Ajahn_Chah_A_Still_Forest_Pool.htm


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Further quotes from the book A Still Forest Pool:

• Let it be
• The language of experience
• Just this mind
• Free yourself
• The happiness of the Buddha